Quotes About Uncertainty

The actual state of our knowledge is always provisional and... there must be, beyond what is actually known, immense new regions to discover.

In these times I don't, in a manner of speaking, know what I want; perhaps I don't want what I know and want what I don't know.

Uncertainty that comes from knowledge (knowing what you don't know) is different from uncertainty coming from ignorance.

We do know of certain knowledge that he [Osama Bin Laden] is either in Afghanistan, or in some other country, or dead.

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Nadie piensa nunca que nadie vaya a morir en el momento más inadecuado a pesar de que eso sucede todo el tiempo

Cuando es del todo imposible saber la verdad, supongo que entonces tenemos la libertad de decidir qué lo es.

Y cuando uno espera demasiado, se le acaba creando un sentimiento ambivalente o contradictorio: descubre que se ha acostumbrado a esperar y que tal vez no quiera otra cosa.

supongo que fue la sensación de estar siendo doble sujeto o doble gË™e·bry¯d-guma al mismo tiempo —una sensación desasosegante— lo que me hizo pensar más lejos

None of us can ever know for sure who we are going to die with.)

Qué triste es que el futuro no te dé esperanza, tan sólo miedo.

Las personas interesantes se distinguen por las preguntas que hacen y las dudas que albergan, mientras que cualquier necio puede estar seguro de todo y ofrecer respuestas que nadie le pide.

To recognize that there can exist a color blindness to blue is as much as to admit that blue exists, which these days seems to me to be more than doubtful.

Y si hubiésemos llegado a unos tiempos de locura en los que los hombres tampoco pudiésemos elegir nuestros puntos cardinales?

Así son las cosas, nos pasamos toda la vida buscando algo y cuando por fin lo tenemos al alcance de la mano, nos asaltan las dudas y no sabemos qué hacer.

And yet wrong steps have to be taken sometimes lest some worse peril befall us; that is the great paradox of politics, and no man can say with surety whether present wrong-doing is better and safer in the end than the possibility of that imagined peril.

No one knows for certain how much impact they have on the lives of other people. Oftentimes, we have no clue. Yet we push it just the same.

For three weeks I was in a state of slippage, a gap widening between me and my usual self.

Sometimes I think the difference between what we want and what we're afraid of is about the width of an eyelash.

If you want God to laugh, make plans.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.

Until the day of his death, no man can be sure of his courage.

With God, what is terrible is that one never knows whether it's not just a trick of the devil.

We poison our lives with fear of burglary and shipwreck, and, ask anyone, the house is never burgled, and the ship never goes down.